When Steel Talks extends Happy Birthday greetings to educator, administrator, director and panist Ashley Gateson-Amankwah - UK - June 8
““I am obsessed with music and so proud to originate from the birthplace of steel pan. Sometimes I almost collapse with bliss when I hear a steel
orchestra. I cry
“It was easy for me to adapt to the engine room through my profession as a dancer; I’m a dance instructor, that’s my ‘living.’ I love rhythm
and I a
She truly has ‘Pan in her DNA...’ In an exclusive, WST speaks to one of Brooklyn's finest - Natasha Isaac of Sonatas Steel Orchestra, New Y
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“From those rather musically promiscuous beginnings I developed a love for everything musical: calypso, pop, Latin, Jazz, Ea
“I come alive as I transform into the woman on the bass while I lose my soul jamming to the sweetness, the harmonic and melodious arrangement by my legen
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Ellie Mannette with Franklin Mayers of ADLIB Steel Orchestra |
Manager – Franklin Mayers
In August of 1989, a group of Caribbean-Americans
When Steel Talks extends Birthday Greetings to composer, panist, arranger, performing artist and now-Dr. Kendall K. Williams
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Kendall Williams in action...
Hailing from St. John’s Road, St. Augustine, Trinidad, musical genius, music educator, ace pannist, innovator and steel pan arranger, Anthony “Juggy” Rose was born on July 4th, 1958 in the beautiful twin island Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. Rose w
When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to NY journalist Jared McCallister.
NY Daily News
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